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Re: Starfield is released

Posted on 2023-09-09, 03:18

Looks like a project that didn't come together well. Surprisingly uneven from an experienced studio. Starfield 2 in 5-10 years could be interesting. This kind of game needs strong AI to drive real-time content and interaction generation, and it's too early.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-08-29, 10:04

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

It's good hardware but needs good software.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-08-18, 17:44

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

Hello, I would like to get the Datapath VisionRGB-pro card. Is this software and its drivers compatible with Windows 7 (32 or 64 bits)? Regards Currently, no. It's available for Linux, which the VisionRGB-PRO has no drivers for. Earlier versions of VCS support the PRO and Windows XP and upwards, …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-14, 17:43

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

The codebase has seen some fundamental reimplementation, and since the work I do is focused around the features and limitations on Linux, I'd say basing the Windows version directly on the Linux codebase is no longer trivial. Very doable, but you have to get familiar with the code to implement some …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-06, 00:17

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

I may get to the 640 x 480 bug at some point, it's reasonable but I have some other things. Someone else can have a go as well.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-05, 17:31

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

How would you output the picture then to not lose quality? I'd force the capture resolution or adjust settings on the source, since 656 x 494 says bad input. Basically forget about the cropping filter, it's not the tool for this. The screenshot looks like destructive scaling with nearest sampling, …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-05, 02:41

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

There actually was a regression in the cropper in that the null scaler would still blow up the region rather than mask it with borders. You'd be using a non-null scaler though so this would have no bearing. If you crop to 1 x 1 with a non-null scaler you're supposed to get a single-color 656 x 494 …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-04, 22:06

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

At a glance I'm not so sure it's a bug. I think you should instead manually force the input resolution to 640 x 480. Filters manipulate pixels but don't resize frames, if you blow up the cropped region then you still have 656 x 494 going into the output scaler.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-03, 16:41

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

There's a cropping filter, that should do it.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-02, 16:20

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

I assume it's built against a newer version of the Datapath RGBEasy API that doesn't support the PRO.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-07-01, 17:22

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

1. it would be great if the VCS can remember what channel was active on the last run and automatically select it on the next startup. My capture card has 2 channels and I have to switch to channel 2 most of the time. For the time being you can use the command-line option "-i 2". There should also …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-06-30, 22:28

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

Cool. Good thing you like extra work since there looks to be some style regression at least. It's usually the case with Qt that small things go off between platforms, but more so across major versions of Qt. Keep in mind some functionality on Windows isn't there in the Linux version, like alias …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-06-14, 22:39

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

A recent commit merges the individual GUI dialogs into a single control panel. Also improves UI functionality here and there, and removes a few things. Work in progress as always. More or less all INI file settings are reset, best to move the old INI file out of the way to have the program generate …

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-06-13, 04:16

by vvbee

in Marvin \ Video

5-6 frames of lag sounds a bit high, that's 100 ms or so? I'd make sure the Datapath app has no frame buffering going on. It also does scaling and color conversion in hardware, but I'd imagine that'd be faster than 100 ms.

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-06-05, 00:36

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

640 x 400 I mean. I'm currently not looking into the 640 x 480 issue either since I'm doing other things but I'm sure it's fixable easily enough. It could be a driver bug too. Writing the TSR and getting reliable results with it would be some amount of messing around, assuming it's possible. I'm not …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-06-04, 17:28

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

Different presets are sometimes needed for the same-ish video mode, so there's activation by resolution and/or refresh rate and/or hotkey. Hotkeys not working is probably along the lines of me having forgotten to restore them after refactoring, but I haven't looked into it. Blurry messes are likely …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-06-02, 16:42

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

If you want to switch between 720 x 40o and 640 x 400 manually, use the numpad shortcuts for input resolution. Presets should activate accordingly. I am not sure what you mean (i also want to change between two settings dealing with the same resolution (as it arrives in VCS), both being 720x400, …

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2023-06-01, 04:22

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

If you want to switch between 720 x 40o and 640 x 400 manually, use the numpad shortcuts for input resolution. Presets should activate accordingly. It should be possible to implement fully user-customizable UI styling by having the code load a .qss style file from disk rather than the one in the …

Re: Serlain - Windows 95-themed Internet Archive front-end with mock IE4

Posted on 2023-04-27, 05:01

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

The year of browsing can now be selected via a dropdown. It's a hint to the Wayback Machine, but if it decides to ignore it then so it be.

Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects

Posted on 2023-04-11, 05:33

by vvbee

in Release Announcements

This renderer's seen a variety of improvements and additions since three or so years ago. It's about 2-3 times faster, has new render samples, more features, etc. Check the GitHub for more info. Still in beta. Latest interactive render samples are there: https://www.tarpeeksihyvaesoft.com/ …

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Re: Starfield is released

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Re: Serlain - Windows 95-themed Internet Archive front-end with mock IE4

Re: Retro n-gon renderer - a JavaScript 3D software renderer for your retro projects